While there continues to be wailing about how climate change is supposedly making the weather more extreme, Greg Carbin, the man in charge at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) sends along this graph and says:
Likely the slowest start to tornado activity in any year in modern record, and possibly nearly a century!
And he has the numbers to show why:
2014, with the zero to twenty bin on the far left, can’t really go any lower.
Source:http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/
Also of interest, we seem to be in a strong tornado drought. At 152 days on April 18, 2014, the span between EF-3 or stronger tornadoes is the 4th longest span between in the last 60 years. Here’s is a plot of the 10 longest spans between EF-3 and stronger tornadoes since 1953. (Click for full resolution image.)
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While one cannot make light of tornadoes, because a big one will come, and it mainly matters where it hits, but this is actually quite astonishing. Growing up in southeast Kansas, near Joplin, Missouri, and living in Oklahoma, near Moore, this is very personal for me, and it is simply a blessing that there have been nearly no tornadoes so far this year. Still, prepare. Also, pray for rain.
If this is the slowest start in the tornado season in 100 years, then the climate must be changing. And since any climate change is a bad thing (I don’t know why but that’s what alarmists keep telling us), we are all doomed! We must pray for more tornadoes. /sarc
I modelled the tornadoes for the last 30 years and I can’t get the number of days without an F3 unless I include the effect of AG CO2.
The tornadoes are there but 70% of them are undetectable because they are Dark Tornadoes.
Save the tornadoes!
The Australian cyclone season as it comes to an end has been such a non event that our BOM is claiming everthing near and far and I mean far as an Australian cyclone.
They are constantly “cooking the books” with zero official scrutiny.
The keep telling us cyclones are increasing.
When your claiming them as “ours” 2500 klm’s of shore, I can see why.
They say that the latest named “Jack”is number 10 for the season.
But what the BOM fails to mention nearly all of them have been nothing more than large rain depressions.
Quite common during the monsoonal season but their claiming them as cyclones and nobody and I mean nobody is questioning.
Here’s a little from the link refering to “Jack”.
“The system is currently located 2500 klm’s from the western most part of the continent”.
“Jack is not likely to impact western Australia, how ever as it dissipates into a deep low pressure trough some rain may be carried over southern parts of WA towards the end of the week”.
So there you have it.
An Australian cyclone 2500 kilometers of shore (in another country)which may or may not give us a bit of rain.
Australian cyclone my arse.
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/jack-becomes-australias-tenth-cyclone/44447
An inconvenient truth for John Holdren. The Obama WH is well accustomed to the political need to distort the truth for public consumption, usually by telling a half truth, that leaves a false impression on the naive.
Question is: How will the WH direct NOAA to fudge-up some bogus distorted message on severe storms for the media to release?
Maybe like Trenberth, they are collectively holding their breath and hoping that an incipient strong El Nino will temporarily save their dying AGW cause?
EF1 counts are notoriously unreliable that far back and this graph is likely to be spurious.
I would suggest digging out the same thing but looking at EF2+ and EF3+ . These do give fairly consistent results since they are a less dependant on detection rates like smaller storms are.
There just is no causation link between tornadoes and anything associated with CO2. When So-called experts advocate such my respect for them approaches zero
Forecast shows that the U.S. will now dominate the circulation of the western and cool air.
http://globalweatherlogistics.com/seaiceforecasting/gfs.850mb.vectors.canada.html
Thanks for that. Since we can’t look into the future I tend to look at the past. Below is the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age.
Speaking of NOAA; Does anyone know why they haven’t yet published the Global Analysis for March?
So this is the result of “Carbin” pollution? (Sorry, but I had to.) I have noticed that a lot of storm chasers have resorted to posting their ‘Best of’ photographs from years past, as this season has been a bust so far.
Technically, this is extreme weather too.
So if the Global Warming advocates are positive that climate change will create more tornadoes, does this not show that their entire premise of global warming is wrong?
2010 actually seems to have started slower than 2014, but quickly jumped up to the middle range. So we’ll see.
Reg Nelson says:
April 21, 2014 at 4:22 pm
“The tornadoes are hiding at the bottom of the ocean. It’s the only rational explanation.”
Yes, and when they finally come out of hiding they will be ten times worse because then they will be Sharknados!
Well, the explanation is super obvious, and I can’t believe none of you are able to see the truth. You’re all forgetting that Former President Bush controls the weather. Remember when he recruited that hurricane because he hates black people (Kanye’s words, not mine)? Now, Bush is too busy with his painting to bother with creating natural disasters. Thus, less tornadoes. Thanks, Bush!
Crap. The Global Warming Fraudsters are wrong again. Maybe Obama Lies are contagious and all Liberals must lie due to their DNA.
No, no, no, you’ve got it all wrong. A decrease in tornadoes is exactly what we expected to see and it’s the new norm.
Not a biggie. IPCC can correct this by inverting the y-axis in their graphs.
The University of East Angles released a study today that indicates due to a miscalculation of historical tornado strength and frequency, and all historical records have been adjusted to more closely reflect reality. In so doing the University has announced that the last two years are now ranked among the worst years for tornadoes on record – tying for first and second place respectively.
NBC has already attributed the lack of tornadoes to the “Polar Vortex”. Since there have been several past years when similar jet stream patterns were observed with correspondingly cold winters, have the years following them also had a dearth of tornadoes?
The Polar Vortex is responsible for the extreme change in tornado numbers, and the Antarctic Ice Cap is melting so fast it’s causing the Ocean to freeze at unprecedented low latitudes.
Climate Science is a forgiving science.
I for one would say good, the US is finally doing its part. I mean, we only have 4.4% of the worlds population yet typically account for 75% of the world’s tornados. We needed to cut back on them so it’s good to see we are doing our part.
Oh, noes! “A severe tornado drought”! Crank up those windmill motors. We gotta close the tornado gap!